Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 17:31:28 +0200 From: Johan Broman <johan@bridgenet.se> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI Message-ID: <5262A5D0.3050604@bridgenet.se> In-Reply-To: <5262A3EE.4050600@allanjude.com> References: <52629DA7.7090103@bridgenet.se> <5262A3EE.4050600@allanjude.com>
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On 19/10/13 17:23, Allan Jude wrote: > On 2013-10-19 10:56, Johan Broman wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Just tested the root-on-ZFS install option using FreeBSD 10 beta 1. I >> have 4 SATA drives in my server. I select all four of them in a RAIDZ1 >> setup. I hit enter to continue the installation and the zpool is >> created, but I'm then returned to the zpool selection screen again. It >> turned out that two of the drives had previously been used in a >> (Linux) software mirror setup and because of this they got activated >> in /dev/raid/r0. Because of this I ended up in an endless bsdinstall >> loop. >> >> Removing the raid device using the graid command resolved the situation. >> >> Now maybe this is working as designed, but there was no warning/alert >> to the fact that the devices couldn't be used. Perhaps a warning >> should be rasied in this situation? >> >> Thanks for all the great work on the new installer, really looking >> forward to FreeBSD 10! >> >> Cheers >> Johan >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Errors like that normally generate a msgbox dialog with the error output > from whichever command failed. I'll have to dig into it and see where > that problem is. I've seen other people have problems creating ZFS > arrays after graid, but in that case it was an incomplete graid label > causing a device to be locked but not appear in the graid status output. > Ah ok. A msgbox did appear but the drives that had the problem (ada2 and ada3) wasn't visible in the output. (not sure if the box itself has a size limit or maybe I was just unable to scroll down and see the errors?). The only visible output was that it was able to create labels on ada0 and ada1. /Johan
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